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Friday, January 10, 2014

Tammy Dennings Maggie is visiting the blog today and she's sharing her new release The Surrender of Julia. This is a contemporary erotic romance that features a bisexual heroine.

This is part of Tammy Dennings Maggie's series of stories, Now and Forever, that relate to The Island, a mysterious realm between life and death where second chances, redemption and love are all become possible, even for those who had given up on a HEA.

L.A. artist phenom Julia Santos appeared to have it all.
Bisexual and hedonistic, she grasped hold of her life with both hands. But
unknown to those around her, inside she was lost. While her best friend Carmen,
a Domme, gave her a sense of security she’d never felt before, Julia fled from
giving herself over fully to her and love.

Still reeling from the effects of an abusive childhood,
Julia denied her growing feelings for Carmen and ran straight into the arms of
adoring men, dominating them with her seductive nature to get what she wanted
from them. However, the erotic power she held over them didn’t give her the
comfort she craved.

As she hurled herself further down the path of
self-destruction, her behavior caught the attention of the Goddess Fate and her
Guardian Angel Daniel. Together they intervene and transport her to the realm
between life and death called the Island. There she’s given a choice: stay and
wait for her next rebirth, or go back and fight to be with the one who had been
there for her through every lifetime.

Will she take the easy way out and leave all the pain
behind, or will she choose the long and hard road in order to have her happily
ever after with the Mistress of her dreams?

Release Date: December 28,
2013

Publisher: Sassy Vixen
Publishing LLC

Heat Level: SEXTREME

Genre: Erotic Contemporary
Romance

Categories: LGBT, bisexual,
BDSM, spanking,

Fantasy, redemption, erotic,

Paranormal elements

Sexual pairings: M/F and F/F

Here's an excerpt:

@Copyright Tammy Dennings Maggie 2014

By reading any further, you are stating that you are 18 years of age, or over.If you are under the age of 18, it is necessary to exit this site.

The only way to the beach
seemed to be through the sliding doors on the other side of the bedroom. The
sound of sea gulls reached her ears as she stepped out onto the deck. A
bubbling hot tub sat to her left and to her right was an outdoor kitchen, complete
with a grill pit and cushioned deck chairs. Directly in front of her stretched
the pale sandy beach. The waves called to her and she practically ran through
the sand to get to the point where the water gently lapped against her calves.
Julia wiggled her toes into the sand, loving the feel of it slipping and
sliding between them. “This is sheer Heaven.”

Then it hit her. The whole
confrontation with Jacob and Mario in the condo replayed on fast forward in her
mind. She remembered drinking way too much whiskey and then swallowing some
pain killers. “Oh, my God!I just
wanted to sleep. I didn’t want to die. This is why I’m here. I’m dead.” She
sank to her knees in the surf and sobbed.

“Julia, you’re not dead.”
A tall blond man stood before her on the beach. He looked to be in his late
twenties, covered in tattoos and sporting multiple piercings. His eyes were
what drew her right in. They were the blue green color of the ocean she sat
in.His eyes made her feel immediately
at ease.

He held out his hand to her.
“Come on. We’ve a lot to talk about and I’m sure you’re full of questions for
me too.”

“Where did you come from?
I thought I was the only one here.” Julia took his hand and allowed him to help
her get to her feet and out of the water.Goosebumps covered her body, but she wasn’t cold. “If I’m not dead, then
how did I get here?”

He laughed. “I’ll answer
all your questions, but first you have to give me a chance to do it before you
fire off more.”He wrapped a large
beach towel around her shoulders as they made their way back up toward her
bungalow. “I’ve been waiting for you to wake up. I’m the Guardian assigned to
watch over you and help you find your way back to the destiny chosen for you by
The Three.”

She sat down on one of the
deck chairs and beckoned to him to sit next to her. “Guardian?As in guardian
angel?”

He nodded. “My name is
Daniel. The Goddess Fate chose me to watch over you and several other people.
One of them you know already, Jake Hartley.”

Julia’s eyes filled with
tears. “I hurt him so badly. Is he okay? I mean he stormed out of our condo
last night. I don’t know where he went.”

Daniel shook his
head.“He was in a horrific accident on
his bike. He slammed into the back of a semi—”

“No! He’s not dead. He
can’t be.” Julia bolted out of her chair and barely reached the end of the deck
before she threw up.

Daniel went immediately to
her side, holding her hair out of the way until she stopped retching. “I’m not
going to sugar coat it for you, Julia. Jake’s fighting for his life right now. But
you need to believe me when I tell you he’s in good hands. His father is my
partner and right now he’s there with him and the rest of the family.”

“He wouldn’t be there if
it wasn’t for me. I did this to him.”Sobs tore through her body again. She’d never cried over anyone or
anything before Jacob. All of it became more than she could take. “Please.
Leave me here to die. Take care of him.”

The Guardian wrapped his
muscled arms around her and held her against his chest. “That’s not why you’re
here. In fact, you’ve been allowed to come here in order for your heart and
soul to mend. Then, you have to make a choice.”

Julia wiped the tears from
her face and gazed into Daniel’s eyes. “I don’t understand. What is this
place?”

“We call it The Island.
Basically, it’s what humans would call limbo. It’s the realm between life and
death. The ability to come here is a gift given to you by Yeshua, Fate, and
Lucius. You have to choose to either stay here and wait until your next life
cycle, or go back to face your demons and fight for your chance to be with your
soul mate and your chosen destiny.”

“The only person that’s
ever loved me like that, the only one who told me he loved me and wanted to
spend the rest of his life with me, is fighting for his life in a hospital bed.”
Julia managed to get back into the deck chair without having another wave of
nausea hit. She curled up in the towel again and wondered if it would be the
best thing to stay here and not go back to all the pain she’d caused.

Daniel smiled. “The only one?
Think hard. Who’s been by your side through everything? Who has let you pursue
all your desires and still loves you unconditionally?”

She smiled through her
tears. “But Carmen can’t be my soul mate. It’s one thing to have an affair, but
the love we have for each other will never be accepted, especially not in her
world as a doctor and hospital administrator.The religious groups in L.A. would crucify her if our relationship was
made public. The hospital Board wouldn’t want to have that kind of publicity.
Carmen’s worked too hard to get where she’s at in her career. I won’t be
responsible for ruining another person’s life.”

“I understand your fears
about that, but you and all those groups have it completely wrong. The Three
didn’t create us as just male or female. We are both. Soul mates are just that,
mates of the soul. Being a male or female isn’t part of it. Souls have no
gender. They’re just pure life force.”

Julia shook her head.
“That may very well be true, but after all I’ve done in my life I don’t deserve
to have that kind of happiness. Jacob does. Carmen does. But not me.”

Daniel took her hands into
his calloused ones. “Why not? If The Three feel you’re worthy, who are you or
anyone to judge differently?”

About the Author

As the founder of Sassy Vixen Publishing, Tammy
has a lot on her plate. Not only has she established herself as an erotic
romance author with Siren Bookstrand, but she's also published two books of
poetry and has many more projects underway. Finding time to write and keep up a
full schedule as a veterinarian in a very busy practice in the Pacific
Northwest has been a difficult task, but one she takes on happily with the help
of her husband, “Mr. Vixen.”

Through her website/blog Behind
Closed Doors and her blog Not
Enough Time in the Day you can get a glimpse into her hectic schedule.
Now she can add Best Selling Author to her resume as her vampire inspired
poetry book The Courtship of the Vampyreis one of the
top sellers on Omnilit (ARe affiliate).

The love of books of all genres helped her decide
to write under four pen names. This way she's able to tell the stories all of
her characters wish to tell whether it's the sweet and sensual or hot and
spicy. Speaking of spicy, Tammy is also part of the Four Seduced Muses along with three
of her Siren author friends. No topic is off limits with the Muses and that's
the way “The Vixen” likes it!

Readers can also connect with her and her alter
egos through Facebook and Twitter.